Men’s formalwear is a highly specialized industry, with consumers often searching for very specific items in the moment to find a nearby store with trusted, high-quality clothing. In this environment, Glenn Zabal, Senior SEO Manager, makes sure his team’s digital marketing strategy is optimized for mobile performance. “We had over 60 million online visits last year, of which more than half were from mobile,” he explains. “So mobile is very important for us.”

From Aggregation to Control

Zabal’s team put in a lot of effort to ensure the website was responsive and otherwise optimized for mobile. But one critical piece was still missing — the ability to have consumers see the most up-to-date information no matter where they looked. “The most important aspect for us is data accuracy for all of our stores,” he explains. “Making sure all of the critical facts, including NAP information — that’s store names, addresses, phone numbers — is up-to-date is essential.

The challenge stemmed from the lack of a complete, rapid digital knowledge management solution. “We used several other vendors in the past who used the aggregator method of submitting, but we felt like the updates weren’t in real time or instantaneous,” Zabal says. “That’s one of the most important pieces for us. So we were looking for a company that had direct connections to Google and all of the major publishers, instead of using the aggregator method, which may take up to a couple of days. We also wanted a company that had a centralized, enterprise-level analytics and reporting dashboard that we could reference. Only Yext met all of our requirements.”

Tailored Brands signed up with Yext and quickly gained the rapid control they had been seeking, ensuring crucial information, from locations to hours, was accurate and as up-to-date as possible.

Zabal decided to leverage the advantage of Digital Knowledge Management even further, integrating with the Yext Knowledge Manager via API. “We use the API to automatically, and almost instantaneously, update all of the major publishers,” he says.

Rapid Updates During a Flood

Tailored Brands has seen tangible dividends from the ability to change information in near real time, not only in the course of normal day-to-day operations, but also when unforeseen events raise the stakes.

“So for example, in one of our stores, there was a flood and we had to mark it closed on all of the major publishers. We didn’t have to wait overnight. We could automatically do it. That immediacy, that’s what sets Yext apart.”

Zabal’s team was able to deploy this change to its digital knowledge rapidly across the web, ensuring that consumers would not be sent to a closed store during the flood, a crucial catch in an industry where each customer experience is key to brand trust.

A Competitive Advantage

Prior to launching with Yext, Tailored Brands saw its search visibility increase by only 5% year-over-year. After verifying, fixing, and optimizing their listings presence with the Yext Knowledge Engine, the company’s total Google Search Views jumped 20% higher than the previous year — an incremental lift of 15%.

Zabal concludes, “The technology and the leadership have been top notch. The service is definitely on the enterprise level. It’s a real competitive advantage.”

The Customer Journey:

“Customers looking for suits or other menswear are often on-the-go — over half of our online visits were from mobile last year — and they’re looking for a nearby store they trust, often for a highly specific item, like a belt or a shirt of a specific color. Capturing that consumer is all about reaching them in the right moment with the latest information, and for us that means we need to control and update our digital knowledge across the web in as close to real time as possible. Having our hours and other store information up to date is extremely important to getting the customer the last mile to our door.” – Glenn Zabal